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  1. Re:At Least on AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options · · Score: 1

    nearly a dozen tabs

    How cute.

  2. Re:Whyput 8 on a desktop or laptop? on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    But that makes sense. None of those things involve moving data around, unless the folder is on a different block device.

  3. Re:While you're at it... on Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays · · Score: 2

    Yes, most commercial movies are shot at 24 Hz, and yes, it's still barbaric.

  4. Re:ARM will kill x86-64 monstruosity in servers on AMD Rumored To Announce Layoffs, New Hardware, ARM Servers On Monday · · Score: 1

    Piledriver gets a lot better when you're not trying to run it at 4 GHz.

  5. Re:Why are graphics awesome on Android? on Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 · · Score: 1

    Assuming you're not using a CRT, lcddefault filter and subpixel AA looks much better.

  6. Re:Why are graphics awesome on Android? on Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 · · Score: 1

    <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    <fontconfig>
        <match target="font">
            <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
                <const>rgb</const>
            </edit>
        </match>

        <match target="font">
            <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
                <bool>true</bool>
            </edit>
        </match>

        <match target="font">
            <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
                <const>hintslight</const>
            </edit>
        </match>

        <match target="font">
            <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
                <bool>true</bool>
            </edit>
        </match>

        <match target="font">
            <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
                <const>lcddefault</const>
            </edit>
        </match>

    </fontconfig>

  7. Re:What, No Touchscreen? on ARM-Based Chromebooks Ready To Battle Windows 8, Tablets · · Score: 1

    I can get a flash drive of the same capacity for about $20 right now, less if I buy in bulk.

    Yes, but that flash drive will read at 20 MB/s second at best, write at 4 MB/s, and slow to a crawl under non-sequential writes due to its simplistic controller and lack of buffer memory. >Personal data kept on flash drives, I presume? Personal data kept on desktop, with a semester's worth synced with the EEE at any one time. SSHFS and Samba were also helpful.

  8. Re:What, No Touchscreen? on ARM-Based Chromebooks Ready To Battle Windows 8, Tablets · · Score: 1

    Shit for local storage? 16 GB is luxurious. That's plenty to not care about remembering to run aptitude clean frequently, or decompress a tarball without worry. I have an EEE 701 with a 4 GB SSD, and it's still quite usable. That is shit for local storage.

  9. Re:lamest name ever on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works · · Score: 1

    Now try to open a second one.

  10. Re:unsecured wifi? on Nebraska Sheriff Wardriving, Sending Letters About Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    That doesn't stop man in the middle attacks. If I know the password, I can run my own AP with the same SSID and password, and proxy all traffic through to the real AP, with whatever snooping of malicious transformations I care to implement.

    Actually solving the prolem requires public-key cryptographic verification of the access point. WPA-PSK just authenticates the users to the AP, not the other way around.

  11. Re:Automatic provisioning? on How Internet Data Centers Waste Power · · Score: 2

    2-10 minutes? A machine in S3 suspend should come up a hell of a lot faster than that. Ballpark 6 seconds.

  12. Re:I can only hope... on X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old · · Score: 1
    Parent asserted that X11 network transparency was not useful on a LAN, and does not provide any benefit in todays world. I, in fact, use X11 on my LAN and derive substantial benefit from it. A single counterexample suffices to disprove such a sweeping statement.

    Freetard fail.

    I hadn't realized Wayland was proprietary software.

  13. Re:I can only hope... on X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I'm using Firefox over ssh -X on my gigabit LAN right now. It's perfectly functional, and makes my desktop substantially more responsive by freeing up a gig of ram (out of 4) for disk cache, as well as offloading some CPU time.

  14. Re:Chrome is for ICS/JB only and requires Gapps on Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low · · Score: 1

    How the fuck is ugly font rendering even a thing on a 250 PPI screen?

  15. I have never killed a man on GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility · · Score: 1

    I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

  16. Re:Well that clears that up on Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's · · Score: 1

    But they,re a disastrous implementation and thoroughly unpleasant to use.

    Two-finger scroll and tap actually work quite nicely if you get rid of Windows.

  17. Re:Nautilus? Compact? No. on GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with detailed list view? It doesn't take up much space, the file order is always on the same axis (up/down), and you can sort by whatever metadata you want?

  18. Re:Iterations on GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions · · Score: 2

    Those menu items are not accessed particularly frequently (at leas in my workflows) and global menu bars fuck up focus-follows-mouse.

  19. Re:OS X is THE superior OS on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 2

    Interlaced video is a joke. It was kind of neat before we had codecs with inter-frame compression, but it's not 1992 any more.

  20. Re:Then why not a Mac? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1

    Unless you consider battery life to be part of performance. Every joule counts.

  21. Re:It's too bad on How Apple Killed the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    The lack of package management is the very reason malware is such a problem on Windows. One installs a Windows program by downloading an (often unauthenticated) executable binary file from the internet and running it with superuser privileges. Think about that for a moment.

  22. Re:The good side? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Maybe one of the more pathetic villains - Penguin?

    We are going to have words.

  23. Re:Anything over 30fps or so is a waste... on CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All · · Score: 1

    But your brain is comparing the perceived motion in the image with the timestamps from your mouse input. If implementing a blur requires 3 frames of buffer, you will notice. Try comparing between Super Mario Brothers in an emulator with a compositing window managers on an older LCD against Super Mario Brothers on an NES connected to a CRT television.

    I had to disable the compositor on my machine, because my monitor has a larger-than-average amount of input latency, and as much as I like tear-free window dragging and saving the CPU cycles for redrawing windows when they are moved or obscured, mouse movement felt like dragging a coffee stirrer through a bowl of molasses.

  24. Re:Open source drivers on OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu On Apple Hardware, Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Are you actually using xterm, or is it one of the libvte based terminals (gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, ect.)? I recently encountered some pretty serious performance issues with libvte. Try Konsole, or urxvt if you want something less heavy.

  25. Re:but I like sperm on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 1

    Mexico.